People think of head restraints as headrests, but they're not. They're important safety devices. You're more likely to need the protection of a good head restraint in a collision than the other safety devices in your vehicle because rear-end collisions are so common. |
Results for (the Rav4) show manufacturers can provide good protection for occupants in the two most common kinds of serious crashes, |
Results for (the Rav4) show manufacturers can provide good protection for occupants in the two most common kinds of serious crashes. |
Results for the BMW and Lexus show that manufacturers can design cars to protect people in the three most common kinds of crashes that lead to injuries. |
Side airbags can protect the head, but if the vehicle structure doesn't hold up well then serious injuries to other body regions still can occur, ... With better structures along with the side airbags, the performances of these vehicles would improve. |
Side airbags can protect the head, but if the vehicle structure doesn't hold up well then serious injuries to other body regions still can occur. With better structures along with the side airbags, the performances of these vehicles would improve. |
Subaru was one of the manufacturers that last year asked us to delay side testing because of vehicle design changes that were in progress. It's not uncommon for us to grant such requests as long as the design changes will be made in production models within a reasonable time. The goal of our crash test program is to encourage these kinds of improvements to reduce injury risk in real-world crashes. |
SUVs can have the same utility they do today and still be equipped with decent bumper systems that extend down to where they match up with those on cars, ... Until then, motorists who bump into mismatched vehicles, even at very low speeds, will have no choice but to open their wallets. |
SUVs can have the same utility they do today and still be equipped with decent bumper systems that extend down to where they match up with those on cars. Until then, motorists who bump into mismatched vehicles, even at very low speeds, will have no choice but to open their wallets. |
The curtain airbag did a good job of cushioning the heads of both the driver and rear passenger dummies, ... Plus, injury measures recorded on the neck, torso, pelvis, and left leg of the dummies all were low. Saab can still make improvements to the 9-3's structure, but in all other areas this was very good performance. |
The curtain airbag did a good job of cushioning the heads of both the driver and rear passenger dummies. Plus, injury measures recorded on the neck, torso, pelvis, and left leg of the dummies all were low. Saab can still make improvements to the 9-3's structure, but in all other areas this was very good performance. |
The federal rules should be changed to make SUVs and cars more compatible, ... The manufacturers already are working on this for high-speed collisions, and they ought to be doing it for low-speed impacts like these tests. |
The federal rules should be changed to make SUVs and cars more compatible. The manufacturers already are working on this for high-speed collisions, and they ought to be doing it for low-speed impacts like these tests. |
The four-point harness would be protective, but not as big a benefit as it would have been before airbags, |
The four-point harness would be protective, but not as big a benefit as it would have been before airbags. |